The Lagos State Government has set up a visitation panel to look into the crisis rocking Lagos State University (LASU) just as the report of the 6-man committee of the State House of Assembly on the lingering crisis indicted the vice chancellor among other things, for contract splitting, violation of the N2 million approval limit, irregular appointment, discrepancy between the approved, budget and the figure being quoted by the university.

A recent lecture by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State entitled “Micro-Credit Programme As a Tool for Wealth/Youth Empowerment Creation and Good Governance” was an eye opener in many ways.

Before Nigeria can successfully do justice to the desire of giving education to all its citizenry, all stakeholders must be interested in ensuring that the youths have unfettered access to basic education.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has offered automatic employment to graduands of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi who emerged overall best in the various departments.

THEY have been perceived as agents of noise pollution. And determined to curb their excesses in this regard, the Lagos State government decided to clamp down on them, especially those found to have erred in terms of failure to comply with relevant laws enacted to check noise pollution in the metropolis.

Two books written by Abel Olaniyi, an award winning author, seasoned lecturer, language consultant and researcher at the University of Lagos were launched recently in Lagos. The books are Standard English and office English.

Towards the end of last week, six students of Graphic Department of Yaba College of Technology and four Lagos-based photographers left Nigeria for Paris, France where they are currently participating in a photographic exhibition along with their counterparts from the Nationale Fine Art School of Paris.

Adetayo recalled that when the school started in 1995, nobody knew that it would become a force to reckon with in secondary education not only among Adventists, but in Nigeria at large. The school provides a means of livelihood to 150 workers, family members, dependents, contractors and artisans.

The decay and gross deficiencies in the nation’s educational system topped the issues deliberated upon at the recently concluded 69th National Executive Council meeting of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN).

THE much-talked about and awaited big match had just ended. And its dramatic outcome was the talking point among parliamentarians as they passionately analysed and argued over the high-points of last Sunday’s entertaining English Premiership encounter between Arsenal, otherwise known as The Gunners, and Chelsea, popularly referred to as The Blues.

In every country, women and girls are in most cases vulnerable to violence with its attendant suffering. Such violence undermines development, creates instability and makes peace much harder to achieve. It was in recognition of this that November 25 was set aside as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

*Insists deregulation is the only way forward *Says Nigeria has invested heavily in education *‘Some people are still living with prejudices of the First Republic’ In this concluding part of the interview with Senator Jubril Aminu, some of his comments came across as scary. Sampler: Look at what happened in Lagos between the Oodua Peoples […]

A lot of us actually regret not doing that. I remember that Ted Mukoro was one of those who got the awards at Ibadan. He started WNBS, the radio station. They came in a year after WNTV kicked off. We met and we agreed that some of us would have started our own TV stations.

By James Ezema As part of its efforts to contribute to the success of community policing initiative of the Federal Government through improved police-public relations, a non-governmental organiation, Twilight International Character Reformation Club (TICRC), is to hold a one-day seminar on character reform for the police. According to the group’s President, Mr. Godwin Dike during […]

….“I did it because I needed money to abort my girlfriend’s pregnancy…leader of the gang” By Evelyn Usman Are you an ardent user of the  Yahoo Messenger chat? Then you have to be careful because some unscrupulous individuals have devised this means to kidnap unsuspecting persons and also perpetrate heinous crimes. The discovery,  followed the […]